Commencement Bay
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Commencement Bay is a large natural harbor on the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State, serving as a key industrial and shipping center for the city of Tacoma.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Commencement Bay canonical | 25 |
| Tacoma harbor | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306995 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commencement Bay Context triple: [Puget Sound region, hasBodyOfWater, Commencement Bay]
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A.
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a large inlet of Puget Sound along the Seattle waterfront, known for its busy port, ferry traffic, and iconic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains.
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B.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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C.
Yaquina Bay
Yaquina Bay is a coastal estuary on the central Oregon coast known for its rich marine ecosystems, fisheries, and role as a hub for marine research and recreation.
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D.
Juneau harbor
Juneau harbor is the main maritime gateway and waterfront area serving Alaska’s capital city, accommodating cruise ships, ferries, and other vessels.
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E.
Humboldt Bay
Humboldt Bay is a large natural harbor and coastal lagoon on the Northern California coast, known for its rich marine ecosystems, commercial port, and surrounding wetlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commencement Bay Target entity description: Commencement Bay is a large natural harbor on the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State, serving as a key industrial and shipping center for the city of Tacoma.
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A.
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a large inlet of Puget Sound along the Seattle waterfront, known for its busy port, ferry traffic, and iconic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains.
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B.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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C.
Yaquina Bay
Yaquina Bay is a coastal estuary on the central Oregon coast known for its rich marine ecosystems, fisheries, and role as a hub for marine research and recreation.
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D.
Juneau harbor
Juneau harbor is the main maritime gateway and waterfront area serving Alaska’s capital city, accommodating cruise ships, ferries, and other vessels.
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E.
Humboldt Bay
Humboldt Bay is a large natural harbor and coastal lagoon on the Northern California coast, known for its rich marine ecosystems, commercial port, and surrounding wetlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bay
ⓘ
natural harbor ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Tacoma, Washington
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Tacoma
Fife, Washington ⓘ Northeast Tacoma ⓘ Ruston, Washington ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Brown’s Point
ⓘ
Point Defiance ⓘ Tacoma Tideflats industrial area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| environmentalStatus | former Superfund site (Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats) ⓘ |
| hasActivity | habitat restoration ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
deep-water port
ⓘ
industrial waterways ⓘ marinas ⓘ rail-served docks ⓘ shipping terminals ⓘ urban waterfront ⓘ |
| hasMouth | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| hasPortFacility | Port of Tacoma ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
harbor seals
ⓘ
orcas ⓘ salmon ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Puget Sound ⓘ Tacoma, Washington ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
|
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Salish Sea ⓘ |
| majorUse |
automobile import
ⓘ
bulk cargo handling ⓘ commercial fishing ⓘ container shipping ⓘ industrial shipping ⓘ log export ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| namedBy | Charles Wilkes ⓘ |
| namedFor | commencement of the Wilkes expedition survey ⓘ |
| partOf |
South Puget Sound
ⓘ
surface form:
southern Puget Sound
|
| receivesInflowsFrom |
Blair Waterway
ⓘ
Hylebos Creek ⓘ Sitcum Waterway ⓘ
surface form:
Hylebos Waterway
Main Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Waterway
Puyallup River ⓘ Sitcum Waterway ⓘ Sitcum Waterway ⓘ
surface form:
St. Paul Waterway
Thea Foss Waterway ⓘ Wapato Creek ⓘ Sitcum Waterway ⓘ
surface form:
Wheeler-Osgood Waterway
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Commencement Bay Description of subject: Commencement Bay is a large natural harbor on the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State, serving as a key industrial and shipping center for the city of Tacoma.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tacoma harbor
this entity surface form:
Tacoma harbor
subject surface form:
Downtown Tacoma